Kong Deck Crew Hands-free Rigging Gloves

Steel plants and fabrication yards work with extremely heavy, dense, and sharp-edged materials such as beams, plates, billets, coils, rebar bundles, and structural assemblies. These loads move fast, swing unpredictably, and can cause severe hand and finger injuries. To control these risks, modern steel facilities have adopted one essential safety rule: No Hand on Suspended Loads Without the RiggerSafe Tool.

The HSF RiggerSafe Tool, paired with Kong Deck Crew Gloves, creates a complete hand-safety system designed specifically for steel handling. Steel loads are heavy, slippery, sharp, and hard to manually guide, making direct hand contact extremely dangerous. Workers often touch loads to stop swing, rotate beams, or guide plates due to habit or lack of tools—but this is where most injuries occur. Hands-free tools eliminate this hazard entirely.

RiggerSafe Tool enables riggers to guide suspended loads from a safe distance without using their hands. Its V-shaped nylon head helps control beams, plates, billets, and bundles. The D-handle provides strong leverage, while the center grip ensures balanced push-pull control. Lightweight, non-conductive construction makes it ideal for steel yards, mills, and fabrication shops. However, it is not suitable for hot zones like furnace areas, hot-rolling lines, or glowing steel environments.

The tool is effective for handling plates, beams, billets, rebar bundles, coils, fabricated assemblies, and steel pallets. It allows workers to maintain safe distance, avoid pinch points, control swing, improve crane coordination, and reduce crush injuries. Steel plants using hands-free tools report 70–90% fewer hand injuries.

Even with hands-free rigging, steel workers require strong PPE for wire rope, chains, hooks, shackles, grinding, and alignment tasks. Kong Deck Crew Gloves offer high-impact knuckle and finger protection, excellent grip on oily or rusty steel, reinforced palms, abrasion resistance, and durability for long shifts—reducing micro-injuries and preventing severe trauma.

Leading steel manufacturers now enforce No Hand Contact with Moving Steel because steel loads swing harder, cause deeper injuries, and give workers no second chances. Hands-free tools improve lifting control, worker positioning, safety compliance, and productivity while strengthening safety culture.

Common injuries—crushed fingers between plates, amputations from swinging beams, deep cuts from sharp edges, fractures from shifting loads, and rope-related injuries—are entirely preventable using the RiggerSafe Tool and impact-rated gloves.

To build a hands-free rigging culture, steel plants should update SOPs with a strict rule forbidding hand contact with suspended steel. Training must demonstrate how to use RiggerSafe Tools during toolbox talks. Every rigging crew should be equipped with RiggerSafe Tools and Kong Deck Crew Gloves. Supervisors enforce compliance easily because the tool simplifies the job and reduces risk.

FAQ highlights:
• Workers should not touch suspended steel because sudden shifts cause severe crush injuries.
• RiggerSafe Tool is used for guiding, pushing, and positioning loads safely from distance.
• It is not heat-safe.
• Kong Deck Crew Gloves provide ideal impact, grip, and abrasion protection.
• Injury reduction requires hands-free tools, training, PPE, and clear SOPs.

Conclusion:
Adopt the rule — No Hand on Suspended Loads Without the RiggerSafe Tool.
Combined with Kong Deck Crew Gloves, steel operations can achieve near-zero hand injuries, higher productivity, and stronger safety culture.

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